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Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months by devx on Friday August 23, 2013 @11:58AM (#6264379)
How about paying $8 billion for Skype, a zero-profit company, and almost paying $40 billion for Yahoo?
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Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months by lotso on Friday August 23, 2013 @04:48PM (#6266172)
Skype is about to pull in 2 billion in revenue. Surely there's some profit there.
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Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months by sbuk on Saturday August 24, 2013 @02:01PM (#6269296)
I'm pretty sure Skype was strategic. Lync as a unified communications platform is all the more interesting because of it.
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